Reconstruction:Latin/nitidiare

This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Latin

Etymology

From nitidus ("polished, clear" - in Late Latin also "clean") +‎ -iāre (causative verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nedejˈjaːre/

Verb

*nitidiāre (Proto-Western-Romance)

1. make clear
2. clean

Descendants

• Direct reflexes: (with various cases of /n/–/d/ metathesis)
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Old Catalan: nedejar, denejar
    • Old French: neier, nier, noier, noyer, nesoier
      • Lorrain: nôyé, noï, nọyi, nōi, nauï, nāyẹ, noyẹ́ (all to do with cleaning or preparing potatoes/vegetables)
    • Old Gascon: deneyar
      • Gascon: deneiar
    • Old Occitan: nedejar, denejar
      • Languedocien: denejar
      • →? Gascon: nedejar
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • >? Asturian: ñidiar, nidiar
• Refections based on *nittus and -izāre:
  • North Italian:
    • Gallo-Italic:
      • Ligurian: netezâ
      • Old Lombard: neteçar
        • Lombard: netegiär (alpine)
      • Piedmontese: nëtié, netié
    • Old Venetan: netezar
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: netejar
    • Franco-Provençal: neteyér, netiér, neteyir
    • Old French: nettoier
      • French: nettoyer
    • Occitan: netejar (several dialects)

      Vivaro-Alpine: netiar, neteiar

References

• “nedejar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*nĭtĭdiare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 7: N–Pas, page 144